Altered Playing Card Challenge Week 4

Can you believe that we are already on week 4 of this challenge? Wow, this has been so great, not just for me but it seems like everyone is having a really good time with these.

Thanks so much for following along

If you have missed any of the previous weeks

Here are your links 

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

and our Facebook page

Altered Playing Card Challenge Facebook Group

I started off with the first card by gluing some torn printed tissue paper onto my background

I then added two colors of acrylic paint

I used the darker color for the entire background and then added little lines and some dots with the lighter color

If you use an old credit or gift card to add some of the paint to one side and then "scratch it on in lines, it works really nicely

I then used my black marker to doodle just a bit

I layed out some of my gelli prints onto my work station and picked out a few that I wanted to use for the houses. I chose some in matching colors and chose some in brighter bolder colors, you can also use printed paper for these if you don't have gelli prints

I then used a marker to start drawing some tiny houses. I didn't really worry about super straight lines or making these perfect. I wanted more whimsical looking houses

I used different prints for the roofs

I cut out my tiny houses and set them aside for later

I then used another gelli print to stamp Stampotique stamp 2 Nauges by artist Janet Klein

(Janet has a line of digi stamps and also a line at Stampotique that are wood mount)

I then cut these out, after all that was done, I adhered my houses and clouds to my Altered Trading Card and I also added a hand written sentiment, I love how it came out, look how cute my little homemade houses are

(I doodled a bit onto my roofs to give them a little more character)

For the next card I simply applied two colors of acrylic paint to the background. I applied the paint with a sponge in order to make "streaks"

I then added a bit of washi tape to the bottom portion of my background in a bright pink

for my characters I used divi stamp City Girl and Shops over at Vera Lane Studios

(ended up only using one of the shops)

I colored my girl and shop with copic markers

I also used one of the clouds that I had previously made and hand wrote a sentiment

I then simply adhered my digi images to my background

Here are my two cards together

I hope you have enjoyed the cards this week and I am always so excited to see what you all create on your own. I have seen some really amazing cards throughout this process.

Have a great week!!

(Will be posting supplies for next week here once I have those done)

Altered Playing Card Challenge Week 2

Hello all, welcome to the second week in our Altered Playing Card Challenge. I am thrilled that so many have expressed interest in taking this journey with me. How fun will it be at the end when we all have a wonderful altered deck of cards?

If you missed the first post regarding the challenge here is a link so you can catch up

Week 1

By now you should have prepped those playing cards by adding gesso or sanding so here we go....

For my first two cards I decided to use Dylusions Sprays to color the background, these are the selected colors I chose for my cards

I used an old box and some paper towels for spraying my cards
(as you can see one of my cards I doodled into the gesso)

Once I am done spraying the Dylusions I dab the cards with a paper towel to grab some of the excess. If you want to spray more in order to add more color, let dry and then feel free to spritz again

If you do not have Dylusions you can also use acrylic paint or any other medium you have, here is what my card looked like with two colors of paint

The paint seemed more transparent than the Dylusions

and with Dylusions

Once my backgrounds are dry I got to work on the green and yellow one first. 

Using a die by Memory Box and some black card stock I made a border for my card. 

(No worries if you don't have this die, just use one your have or you can even draw a border on your card with black marker, none should ever feel like they have to use what I did) 

I used glossy accents to glue my border onto my card

I then cut out a small butterfly using Tim Holtz movers and shapers butterfly die and using a scroll word stamp (Hero Arts) and black versafine ink I stamped onto my butterfly

Using a white gel pen I went over the doodle on the side of my card (made previously with the gesso) and also doodled a bit on my flower border

using my Prismacolor black pen I edged my card with black (I do this a lot)

I like my butterflys wings to stand up so I adhered my butterfly with a zot right in the center, if you want yours flat just glue the entire butterfly to the card

I used a Stampotique Stamp for two of my words

you can find this stamp 

HERE 

and I used a Stampin Up stamp for the "your" word (just mask of the rest of the words and stamp the word you want)

you can also write your sentiment or print something from your printer if you don't want to use stamps

Whalla!! First card done! As you can see, I'm in love with color, I like bright bold colors and I will be making various colored background for our deck. 

for the next card I used digi stamps from Janet Klein's Vera Lane Studio Etsy Shop 

Janet is also offering a 20% discount for a limited time. Use Coupon code ALTER52 when ordering.
I will be using these digi stamps throughout the 6 months on various cards so go scoop some of these wonderful stamps up while the coupon is good.
Also, Janet did an awesome tutorial on how to work with digi stamps 
on her blog HERE

Back to my tutorial....... Simply print out your digi in the size needed for the card

my girl was printed about 2"x 1 3/4" or so 

I recommend using quality paper to print your image, I used Ranger specialty paper

 I then colored my image with copic markers

Lastly cut your images out and adhere them to the front of your card

If you did not end up with a speckled background, you can make those speckles with a white gel pen, I like how it looks like she is flying through the stars

I also added a small piece of black wash tape to the bottom of my card

A helpful tip, be careful when glueing your images down, sometimes the dylusions spray inks come off on your fingers, I smudged my girls dress

Here are the two finished card for this week

I really like the idea of all of the playing cards coming out so different. I can't wait to see what you will create this week.

If you haven't already joined, make sure to come by the Facebook page and join in and share your creations with all of us

Altered Playing Card Challenge Facebook Page

If you cannot join the Facebook page, leave me a link to your photos so I can see what you create.

We will have our first giveaway this week, winners will be announced next Monday the 15th with our 3 week post

In order to be entered 

1. Leave a comment on this post

2. Play along in the challenge

3. Be a follower 

Winner will be drawn at random

See ya next week!

(Supplies for next week.... 

1. Alcohol Inks - Stream, Ginger, Caramel and Latte

2. Copper Paint Pen

3. Archival Ink - Wendy Vecchi Pottin Soil

4. Tim Holtz Remnant Rub Set "words"

5. Crafter Workshop Stencil by Rebekah Meier

6. Dies - Tim Holtz Autumn Gatherings

Tim Holtz Wanted alphabet

Tim Holtz Garden Greens

Tim Holtz Gadget Gears

7. Distress Inks Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo

Again, this is just what items I have used, you can use whatever you want or what you have)